Father torches home with wife & four children inside

A berserk businessman on Friday night trapped his wife and four children in their home at Port Kaituma, North West District, and set the building alight.This was confirmed early yesterday morning by the Guyana Police Force, who also confirmed that the four children and their mother were unable to get out of the burning building and were eventually burnt to death.

The dead have been identified as Lea La Cruz, 14; Lavette La Cruz, 3; Labron La Cruz, 8; Levon La Cruz, 1; and their mother, Lurlene La Cruz, 39.

Police in the area responded on Friday night to a report from a twelve-year-old child that her father and mother had been involved in an intense argument, and that her father was threatening to burn down the family home, located at Main Road, Port Kaituma, North West District.

The police took the child’s report very seriously, and set off for the area; but as they approached, they saw that the building was already on fire. However, suspecting there were persons trapped in the burning building, the police vainly attempted to access the building, but the intense heat and a locked grill door prevented them.

A bucket brigade comprising police and residents of the area also failed to put out the fire.

Early yesterday morning, the police were able to pull the charred remains of the woman and her four children from among the debris of the burnt out home. The patriarch of the home, identified as fifty-year-old, Linus La Cruz, who operates a business in the area, has been taken into police custody. He sustained burns to parts of his body, and is under guard at the Port Kaituma Hospital even as investigations into the matter are continuing.

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